WINCHI DE JESUS, interdisciplinary
My practice is heavily influenced by my tendency to daydream. Visualizing, feeling, and experiencing moments as if they were really there. This reveals itself through my creation of perfectly imperfect pictures, objects and adornment. By implementing repetition, this allows me to sit with the feelings a piece is inspired by, and release them in an intuitive way. Over the years I’ve familiarized myself with the lost wax and vacuum casting processes, and have gained a deep admiration for working with wax. As it melts, it reminds me of intimacy and the body. Recently, glass has given me a similar reaction. I hope to expand my growth in these processes and reconnect with my other interests: photography (analogue and cyanotypes), ceramics, and collaborative works, during my time at the Mendocino Art Center.
ABOUT WINCHI
Born in 1999, Winchi De Jesus is an interdisciplinary Queer, Filipino-American artist who makes work inspired by interpersonal relationships. They work in metals, photography, glass, and clay to navigate their attachment with the human experience. Creating objects that are always dedicated to someone, or something. Winchi received their BFA at Cal Poly Humboldt in 2021. Their work has been exhibited internationally at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, and nationally at the Huntington Beach Art Center and Morris Graves Museum of Art. They also participated in Cooperation Humboldt’s Artists Dismantling Capitalism online exhibition Just Imagine, as well as Brooklyn Metalwork’s Anonymous Brooklyn during New York City Jewelry Week in 2022. Winchi is currently in their second year as a metals Artist in Resident at the Mendocino Art Center where they’re developing a new body of work to solidify their voice in this discipline.
